The GAIL COWAN MANAGEMENT Award for Best Actress Playing a Character with a Disability/Medical Condition of the Year... Renee Lyons in "The Triumphants"

The APRA Award for Best Singing in a Play... Colleen Davis in "Little Shopof Horrors"

The Auckland Theatre Company Award for Best Special Effect of the Year… Celery's Snow Machine (in every play that Celery have been a part of all year)

The KATHRYN RAWLINGS AND ASSOCIATES Award for Best Nudity of the Year... The poster for "Private Lives"

The SILO THEATRE Award for Best Ensemble acting of the Year... "The Laramie Project part 2"

The ROBERT BRUCE AGENCY Award for Best Director of More Than One Gay Play of the Year …. Sophie Roberts the Queen of Gay Theatre

The NEW ZEALAND DANCE COMPANY Award for Best Dancing in a Theatre Show of the Year... Liesha Ward Knox in "Play Me Deadly"

The AUCKLAND FESTIVAL Award for Most Original Production of the Year... Brel

nik smythe

posted 17 Nov 2012, 11:59 PM

The SOUTH PACIFIC PICTURES Award for Best Break Up of the Year – Werner Heisenberg and Niels Bohl (Simon Kane & Bruce Phillips): Copenhagen

The AUCKLAND ACTORS Award for Best Entrance of the Year– Nisha Madhan and Alexa Wilson's multiple introductions of eachother: Showpony

The ELEPHANT PUBLICITY Award for Best Poster of the Year – Black Confetti

The GAIL COWAN MANAGEMENT Award for Best Actress/Actor Playing a Character with a Disability/Medical Condition of the Year – Virginia Frankovich as Kate in Black Confetti

The APRA Award for Best Singing in a Play - Colleen Davis: Little Shop of Horrors (special mention to Alexandra Clare for her wartime jazz rendition of Hey Nonny Nonny in Theatre Workshop's Much Ado About Nothing)

The Playmarket NEW ZEALAND Award for Best Line in a Kiwi Play – Not sure of exact wording; something to the effect of “I can't die yet, I'm only up to season 3 of the Wire!”, which I believe was Elvis in Black Confetti, by Eli Kent

The Auckland Theatre Company Award for Best Special Effect of the Year – take your pick of any number from The Boy With Tape On His Face … More Tape

The JOHNSON AND LAIRD MANAGEMENT Award for Best Cross Dressing of the Year – Kinloch Anstiss as Harry in Day After Night

The SILO THEATRE Award for Best Ensemble acting of the Year - Alisha Lawrie-Paul, Josephine Stewart-Tewhiu, Julia Croft and Sam Bunkall: Little Histories of the Life Ordinary.

The ELIZABETH WHITING Award for Best Costume of the Year –Lobster Man in Cowboy Mouth/Love It Up (unsure who designed it, possibly Lara Fischel-Chisolm?)

The NEW ZEALAND DANCE COMPANY Award for Best Dancing in a Theatre Show of the Year – the cast of Starving Carving Darling, Short + Sweet Week 3, directed and presumably choreographed by Judy Tran

The AUCKLAND FESTIVAL Award for Most Original Production of the Year – Show Pony (Nisha Madhan and Alexa Wilson)

Nat Hugill

posted 19 Nov 2012, 06:04 PM

**sorry, being totally shameless and also voting for my show**

The ELEPHANT PUBLICITY Award for Best Poster of the Year: Lilly Loca's Vaudeville Cabaret - either of their posters from their shows 'The Wunderbar Spectacular', 'Frivolous Frivolity' or 'The Va-Va-Voom Burlesque Show'. All created and designed by Peter Heckman.

The APRA Award for Best Singing in a Play...Colleen Davis in 'Little Shop of Horrors'. Absolutely outstanding!

The JOHNSON AND LAIRD MANAGEMENT Award for Best Cross Dressing of the Year... Patty Haag - Stage Kitten for Lilly Loca's Vaudeville Cabaret!

The SILO THEATRE Award for Best Ensemble acting of the Year... The mechanicals from ATC's 'A Midsummer Night's Dream"

The THEATREVIEW Award for Best Review Quote of the Year…. "I'm being blinded by the light reflecting off the nipple tassles” - Sarah Idle, 'Reviewing Lilly Loca's Vaudeville Cabaret Presents: The Wunderbar Spectacular' on Gather and Hunt

The JAMES WALLACE ARTS TRUST AWARD for the fastest pack in/pack out by a production team of the year...anyone who did Tempo Dance Festival!!!!!

The AUCKLAND FESTIVAL Award for Most Original Production of the Year...Beautiful Losers, written by Mike Hudson and directed by Margaret-Mary Hollins

The Big reTHiNK was a multi-genre live performance (music, theatre, film, dance, poetry, visual art and stand up comedy) which took the live audience on a seamless, interactive emotional roller-coaster ride mimicking the journey from mental illness to recovery. This production was the first of it's kind anywhere in the world.

Matt Baker

posted 21 Nov 2012, 09:10 AM

The SOUTH PACIFIC PICTURES Award for Best Break Up of the Year

Geraldine Brophy & George Henare – Awatea

The AUCKLAND ACTORS Award for Best Entrance of the Year

Jeremy Hewett – An Unseasonable Fall Of Snow

The ELEPHANT PUBLICITY Award for Best Poster of the Year

Free Load

The Armstrong Creative Award for Best Technical ***k up of the Year

The stairs during the curtain call for the opening night of Bucket Boy

The GAIL COWAN MANAGEMENT Award for Best Actress/Actor Playing a Character with a Disability/Medical Condition of the Year

The Big reTHiNK was a multi-genre live performance (music, theatre, film, dance, poetry, visual art and stand up comedy) which took the live audience on a seamless, interactive emotional roller-coaster ride mimicking the journey from mental illness to recovery. This production was the first of it's kind anywhere in the world.

Grae Burton

posted 21 Nov 2012, 09:40 AM

MY COMPLETELY UNBIASED OPINION...

The HACKMAN Awards for 2012:

The SOUTH PACIFIC PICTURES Award for Best Break Up of the Year... ASCIA AND MIKE IN LOVE AND MONEY COZ THEY ARE SEXY YO!

The AUCKLAND ACTORS Award for Best Entrance of the Year... EMMANUELLE BAIN - FREE LOAD - BEING BORN OUT OF BOXES RIGHT IN FRONT OF THE AUDIENCE.

The ELEPHANT PUBLICITY Award for Best Poster of the Year... FREE LOAD, ALL FOUR OF THEM.

The Armstrong Creative Award for Best Technical ***k up of the Year... THE PLANNED SHORT CIRCUIT FIZZLE IN COFFEE WITH EELCO WHERE EVERYONE IN THE AUDIENCE HAS TO GET UP, TURN AROUND THREE TIMES, SPIT ON THE GROUND AND SWEAR AT THE TOP OF THEIR LUNGS TO BREAK THE CURSE OF MACBETH...

The GAIL COWAN MANAGEMENT Award for Best Actress/Actor Playing a Character with a Disability/Medical Condition of the Year... EMMANUELLE BAINS IN FREE LOAD PLAYING A SCHIZOPHENIC COMPUTER AVATAR

The APRA Award for Best Singing in a Play... BREL CAST

The Playmarket NEW ZEALAND Award for Best Line in a Kiwi Play... "PRICK ME DO I NOT BLEED, TICKLE ME, DO I NOT TICKLE YOU BACK!" COFFEE WITH EELCO

The KATHRYN RAWLINGS AND ASSOCIATES Award for Best Nudity of the Year..... LOVE AND MONEY CAST

The JOHNSON AND LAIRD MANAGEMENT Award for Best Cross Gender Acting of the Year... GRAE BURTON IN COFFEE WITH EELCO PLAYING A 50'S HOUSEWIFE AGAINST COFFEE, "AS SATAN IS TO OUR LORD THE ANTI-CHRIST, SO TOO COFFEE IS THE ANTI TEA..."

The SILO THEATRE Award for Best Ensemble acting of the Year... SHORT+SWEET, ALL OF THEM

The ROBERT BRUCE AGENCY Award for Best Director of Gay Play, staring Kip Chapman, Simon London, Dena Kennedy and Sam Snedden of the Year… ISN'T ALL THEATRE GAY?

The ELIZABETH WHITING Award for Best Costume of the Year... MOTHER EARTH IN THAT MUSICAL THINGY...

The JAMES WALLACE ARTS TRUST AWARD for the fastest pack in/pack out by a production team of the year... EVERY COFFEE WITH EELCO SEASON, PARTICULARLY IF IT'S IN YOUR LOUNGE.

The AUCKLAND ARTS FESTIVAL Award for Most Original Production of the Year... FREE LOAD

Jordan Mooney

posted 21 Nov 2012, 01:42 PM

The AUCKLAND ACTORS Award for Best Entrance of the Year... Laura Daniel (Unitec BREL)

The Armstrong Creative Award for Best Technical ***k up of the Year... Gunshot going off 2 scenes too early in Punk Rock

The APRA Award for Best Singing in a Play... Rebekah Brady (Unitec BREL)

The KATHRYN RAWLINGS AND ASSOCIATES Award for Best Nudity of the Year..... Lol Jordan Mooney in The Sex Show

The SILO THEATRE Award for Best Ensemble acting of the Year... Unitecs BREL

The ROBERT BRUCE AGENCY Award for Best Director of Gay Play, staring Kip Chapman, Simon London, Dena Kennedy and Sam Snedden of the Year… Um.. Awatea?

The JAMES WALLACE ARTS TRUST AWARD for the fastest pack in/pack out by a production team of the year... Outfits The Sex Show - like lightening!

The AUCKLAND ARTS FESTIVAL Award for Most Original Production of the Year... Unitecs BREL

G G

posted 21 Nov 2012, 07:31 PM

The AUCKLAND ACTORS Award for Best Entrance of the Year... There were several good ones in Black Confetti...

The ELEPHANT PUBLICITY Award for Best Poster of the Year... Why Is Everybody So Full Of Technique?

The Armstrong Creative Award for Best Technical ***k up of the Year... The front 2 rows of the Maidment being ticketed but not installed for "8"

The GAIL COWAN MANAGEMENT Award for Best Actress/Actor Playing a Character with a Disability/Medical Condition of the Year... Leon Wadham in Tribes

The APRA Award for Best Singing in a Play... BREL. Does that count? Is that a play? I guess not. Brel anyway.

The Playmarket NEW ZEALAND Award for Best Line in a Kiwi Play... ""Why would you wank in a girl's hair?" "Um, some women like that."" - The Motor Camp

The KATHRYN RAWLINGS AND ASSOCIATES Award for Best Nudity of the Year..... Jordan Mooney in The Sex Show. Please get naked when you win this.

The SILO THEATRE Award for Best Ensemble acting of the Year... Stage Two for The Crucible

The NEW ZEALAND DANCE COMPANY Award for Best Dancing in a Theatre Show of the Year... Terror Island, Kate Simmonds in particular

The AUCKLAND FESTIVAL Award for Most Original Production of the Year... Why Is Everybody So Full Of Technique?

The KATHRYN RAWLINGS AND ASSOCIATES Award for Best Nudity of the Year..... Jordan Mooney - THE SEX SHOW

The JOHNSON AND LAIRD MANAGEMENT Award for Best Cross Gender Acting of the Year...Shimpal Lelisi - A FRIGATE BIRD SINGS

The SILO THEATRE Award for Best Ensemble acting of the Year...PUNK ROCK

The ELIZABETH WHITING Award for Best Costume of the Year...The Chesire Cat - ALICE

The HACKMAN Award for Best Unlucky in Love Character of the Year...Nathan Mudge as William in PUNK ROCK

The JAMES WALLACE ARTS TRUST AWARD for the fastest pack in/pack out by a production team of the year...Any show by THE OUTFIT, in and out like lightning!

The NEW ZEALAND DANCE COMPANY Award for Best Dancing in a Theatre Show of the Year...Zaar Cormack and Devlin Bishop in THE SEX SHOW

The AUCKLAND ARTS FESTIVAL Award for Most Original Production of the Year...COURSE RELATED COSTS by Colin Garlick

Josephine Stewart

posted 23 Nov 2012, 05:23 PM

The SOUTH PACIFIC PICTURES Award for Best Break Up of the Year... Danielle Cormack and Bronwyn Bradley in "Top Girls"

The AUCKLAND ACTORS Award for Best Entrance of the Year... Sam Snedden as a Nazi in "The Pride"

The ELEPHANT PUBLICITY Award for Best Poster of the Year... "Terror Island"

The GAIL COWAN MANAGEMENT Award for Best Actress/Actor Playing a Character with a Disability/Medical Condition of the Year... Renee Lyons as "Beth Loffreda" in "The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later" OR Sophie Hambleton as "Angie" in "Top Girls"

The APRA Award for Best Singing in a Play... Aidee Walker in "And Then You Die"

The Playmarket NEW ZEALAND Award for Best Line in a Kiwi Play... "And I wear my lobster suit everyday to remind myself of how far I've come as a Lobst... Actor." - Nisha Madhan for "Love it Up"

The KATHRYN RAWLINGS AND ASSOCIATES Award for Best Nudity of the Year..... Poster for "Private Lives" (the boob).

The JOHNSON AND LAIRD MANAGEMENT Award for Best Cross Gender Acting of the Year... Alisha Lawrie Paul as "Old Man Frankie" in "Little Histories"

The SILO THEATRE Award for Best Ensemble acting of the Year... Cast of "Punk Rock"

The ROBERT BRUCE AGENCY Award for Best Director of a Gay Play staring Kip Chapman, Simon London, Dena Kennedy and Sam Snedden of the Year… SOPHIE ROBERTS

The ELIZABETH WHITING Award for Best Costume of the Year... Josh Rutters Cardboard lobster costume which cracked open to reveal a a David Bowie-esque rock and roll star costume underneath, complete with feathers and tie-dye. Made by Lara Fischel-Chisholm for "Love it Up"

The THEATREVIEW Award for Best Review Quote of the Year….

"Going to the theatre is an experience. Some companies even have a Customer Experience Manager who monitors the entire occasion from beginning to end. It's not just what happens on the stage but the journey to the theatre, the cost and convenience of car parking, finding a meal nearby, the welcome at the box office, the cleanliness of the toilets, the smile from the usher, the ambience of the theatre, the glass of wine during the interval, the ease of departure, the air conditioning, the whole kit and caboodle that makes going to the theatre a joy or a nightmare.

I've been critical of The Basement in the past but not this time. The box office experience is always pleasant and this continued to be the case with Eigengrau. A smile costs nothing and the one I was greeted with was warm and welcoming. The quick pit stop at the Ladies was almost a revelation. Everything was pristine clean and fresh as a daisy.

The usher was sweet and the theatre, to be frank, the most pleasant surprise I've had in a performance space for a long time. There was no hint of the old dust and grime; the smell of fresh paint sat lightly in the air, the walls were gleaming from a spanking new paint job and the whole place looked delightfully revamped." - Lexi Matheson reviews "Eigengrau"

The HACKMAN Award for Best Unlucky in Love Character of the Year... All the women in "Top Girls"

The NEW ZEALAND DANCE COMPANY Award for Best Dancing in a Theatre Show of the Year... "Terror Island"!!! HANDS DOWN!

The AUCKLAND ARTS FESTIVAL Award for Most Original Production of the Year... Cowboy Mouth/Love it Up by Nisha Madhan

James Wenley

posted 23 Nov 2012, 06:27 PM

The SOUTH PACIFIC PICTURES Award for Best Break Up of the Year...

Seymour and Audrey II Morgan Albrecht and the Pink Cake (Sleepover) Harry and David in Day After Night

The Cast of Massive's The Brave Honourable mention: Michael Hurst in Bard's Day Night

The ROBERT BRUCE AGENCY Award for Best Director of a Gay Play staring Kip Chapman, Simon London, Dena Kennedy and Sam Snedden of the Year…

You mean the director of the YEAR? Sophie Roberts…

The ELIZABETH WHITING Award for Best Costume of the Year...

Cheshire Cat, Alice

The THEATREVIEW Award for Best Review Quote of the Year….

The quick pit stop at the Ladies was almost a revelation. Everything was pristine clean and fresh as a daisy. – Lexie Matheson, Theatreview (Eigengrau)

“ I can't say I slept very well, being a man of above average height, having to curl myself to fit.” – James Wenley, Theatre Scenes (Sleepover)

“It feels as if Brown and Glass have done the first semester of Philosophy 100 and taken an online scriptwriting course, and decided to write an unsolicited thesis in the form of a play using Wikipedia as their one and only reference tool.” Matt Baker, Theatre Scenes (Bucket Boy)

“But this is what Black Confetti does: it makes you excited about theatre. It's a dark and glittering show that shivers and quakes, and one that keeps you guessing about what will happen next, not only in the play, but in New Zealand theatre.” –Rosabel Tan, Theatre Scenes

"Pull the trigger and this heat erupts in the back of your throat. All the force of Tarawera. And bang! All in one split-second. The remains of your consciousness become little more than a Jackson Pollock wet-dream over the wall behind you." - Joseph Harper ('the boy & the bicycle' in tinyspectacle/shitty lyricism)

The KATHRYN RAWLINGS AND ASSOCIATES Award for Best Nudity of the Year.....

Kip Chapman in Black Confetti ;)

The JOHNSON AND LAIRD MANAGEMENT Award for Best Cross Gender Acting of the Year...

Steven Anthony Maxwell in 'Chub' or Andrea Kelland as that creepy man in 'Speak Easy'

The SILO THEATRE Award for Best Ensemble acting of the Year...

Tribes - maybe not defined as 'ensemble' but they were the perfect cast

The ROBERT BRUCE AGENCY Award for Best Director of a Gay Play staring Kip Chapman, Simon London, Dena Kennedy and Sam Snedden of the Year…

Sophie Roberts

The ELIZABETH WHITING Award for Best Costume of the Year...

Marlene (Danielle Cormack) in top girls (with a 'tip of the hat' to Joseph Moore in Bombs Away - woman with scarf)

The THEATREVIEW Award for Best Review Quote of the Year….

"I'd brought my family, a last minute decision, so my ten year old son was still in his karate gi. I hoped the decision would prove to be appropriate and it turned out it was." - Lexie Mathewson

The HACKMAN Award for Best Unlucky in Love Character of the Year...

Leon Wadham in tribes :( :( :(

The JAMES WALLACE ARTS TRUST AWARD for the fastest pack in/pack out by a production team of the year...

Any production involving ruby reihanna Wilson. That girl has got it down-pack. And will do it all with a kebab in her hand.

The NEW ZEALAND DANCE COMPANY Award for Best Dancing in a Theatre Show of the Year...

Bombs Away cast

The AUCKLAND ARTS FESTIVAL Award for Most Original Production of the Year...

The Triumphants

Steven Maxwell

posted 24 Nov 2012, 08:52 PM

The AUCKLAND ACTORS Award for Best Entrance of the Year...

Yael Gezentsvey in Nuclear Family.

The ELEPHANT PUBLICITY Award for Best Poster of the Year...

Eigengrau.

The GAIL COWAN MANAGEMENT Award for Best Actress/Actor Playing a Character with a Disability/Medical Condition of the Year...

Janelle Bish with obesity in Chub.

The APRA Award for Best Singing in a Play...

Colleen Davis in Little Shop of Horrors.

The KATHRYN RAWLINGS AND ASSOCIATES Award for Best Nudity of the Year.....

Jordan Mooney in The Sex Show.

The SILO THEATRE Award for Best Ensemble acting of the Year...

The ensemble of Eigengrau.

The HACKMAN Award for Best Unlucky in Love Character of the Year...

Leon Wadham in Tribes.

The JAMES WALLACE ARTS TRUST AWARD for the fastest pack in/pack out by a production team of the year...

Ruby Reihana and co. in Nuclear Family.

The AUCKLAND ARTS FESTIVAL Award for Most Original Production of the Year...

The Triumphants.

Michael Craven

posted 25 Nov 2012, 02:34 PM

The SOUTH PACIFIC PICTURES Award for Best Break Up of the Year...Paul Glover (Carolyn Cassady) and Scott Wills (Neal Cassady) In "Beautiful Losers"

The AUCKLAND ACTORS Award for Best Entrance of the Year...Matt Baker in "The Break Up" as part of the Short and Sweet Play Festival.The re-entrance after breaking up with another mans girlfriend after being beaten up off stage then being thrown back onto the stage while wearing an elephant suit.

The Armstrong Creative Award for Best Technical ***k up of the Year...Michael Craven. Opening Night of The Dust Palace's Love and Money. The lighting desk crashed right before the Larger than Life dance number. Managed to light the show with a followspot for 10 minutes while resussitating the desk. No one noticed.

The GAIL COWAN MANAGEMENT Award for Best Actress/Actor Playing a Character with a Disability/Medical Condition of the Year...Renee Lyons in "Nick" as part of the Triumphants season at Q theatre and TAPAC

The Playmarket NEW ZEALAND Award for Best Line in a Kiwi Play...Ascia Maybury "It's really hard to get it in when its that big." In The Dust Palace's "Love and Money"

The Auckland Theatre Company Award for Best Special Effect of the Year…Michael Craven pouring water from the lighting grid on Geof Gilson as part of the Flashdance performance in The Dust Palace's "Love and Money"

The KATHRYN RAWLINGS AND ASSOCIATES Award for Best Nudity of the Year..... Rebecca Coleman-Smith in the Dust Palace's Cirque Non Sequitur

The JOHNSON AND LAIRD MANAGEMENT Award for Best Cross Gender Acting of the Year...Scott Wills as Joan Vollmer in "Beautiful Losers"

The SILO THEATRE Award for Best Ensemble acting of the Year...The cast of "Culture Clash" at TAPAC

The ELIZABETH WHITING Award for Best Costume of the Year...All the costumes in "The Pantry Shelf" at the Basement

The HACKMAN Award for Best Unlucky in Love Character of the Year...Natalie Hugill as Gary in "Lily Loca's Vaudevillian Cabaret"

The JAMES WALLACE ARTS TRUST AWARD for the fastest pack in/pack out by a production team of the year...Tim Bray Productions "Hairy Maclary". 10 hours from Go to Show for the Royal Performance at the Bruce Mason Centre.

The NEW ZEALAND DANCE COMPANY Award for Best Dancing in a Theatre Show of the Year...Geof Gilson performing Flashdance in the Dust Palace's "Love and Money"

The AUCKLAND ARTS FESTIVAL Award for Most Original Production of the Year...Culture Clash at TAPAC directed by Beth Kayes. Written by Renee Liang

Will Greenwood

posted 25 Nov 2012, 08:17 PM

The SOUTH PACIFIC PICTURES Award for Best Break Up of the Year...

The AUCKLAND ACTORS Award for Best Entrance of the Year...

Sam Snedden in 'The Pride'

The ELEPHANT PUBLICITY Award for Best Poster of the Year...

'Private Lives'

The GAIL COWAN MANAGEMENT Award for Best Actress/Actor Playing a Character with a Disability/Medical Condition of the Year...

Virginia Frankovich in 'Black Confetti'

The APRA Award for Best Singing in a Play...

Hayley Sproull in 'Miss Fletcher Sings the Blues'

The KATHRYN RAWLINGS AND ASSOCIATES Award for Best Nudity of the Year.....

Anna Julienne and Adam Gardiner in 'The Vibrator Play'

The JOHNSON AND LAIRD MANAGEMENT Award for Best Cross Gender Acting of the Year.

Renee Lyons in 'The Triumphants'

The SILO THEATRE Award for Best Ensemble acting of the Year...

The cast of 'Punk Rock'

The ROBERT BRUCE AGENCY Award for Best Director of a Gay Play staring Kip Chapman, Simon London, Dena Kennedy and Sam Snedden of the Year…

Sophie Roberts

The ELIZABETH WHITING Award for Best Costume of the Year...

The Ronettes in 'Little Shop of Horrors'

The HACKMAN Award for Best Unlucky in Love Character of the Year...

Nathan Mudge in 'Punk Rock'

The NEW ZEALAND DANCE COMPANY Award for Best Dancing in a Theatre Show of the Year...

'Terror Island'

The AUCKLAND ARTS FESTIVAL Award for Most Original Production of the Year...

'Tiny Spectacle/Shitty Lyricism'

Natalie Beran

posted 26 Nov 2012, 09:00 AM

The SOUTH PACIFIC PICTURES Award for Best Break Up of the Year... Matt Baker Matt Baker in The Breakup(Short+Sweet)

The AUCKLAND ACTORS Award for Best Entrance of the Year... Black Confetti - most trap door entrances

The ELEPHANT PUBLICITY Award for Best Poster of the Year... Copenhagen – Jennifer Ward-Lealand gorgeous

The Playmarket NEW ZEALAND Award for Best Line in a Kiwi Play... "do you think you could belong for two weeks?" Robyn Paterson The South Afreakins

The Auckland Theatre Company Award for Best Special Effect of the Year… Mark Scott – fridge light = bedside lamp in The Gospel According to Bowser (Short+Sweet)

The ELIZABETH WHITING Award for Best Costume of the Year... Yeti (Yeti is Dead, I am Tom) + Robot (Lighthouse Keeper - Short+Sweet)

The THEATREVIEW Award for Best Review Quote of the Year…. "great Danish poof" Bard Day's Night

The HACKMAN Award for Best Unlucky in Love Character of the Year... Tom - Yeti is Dead, I am Tom

The JAMES WALLACE ARTS TRUST AWARD for the fastest pack in/pack out by a production team of the year... Natalie Beran and team(s) for the Pumphouse Theatre packout Into the Woods, packin/out Musical Spectacular Concert and Pack in Crimes of the Heart – 9 hours/3 shows!!!

The AUCKLAND ARTS FESTIVAL Award for Most Original Production of the Year... Love and Money The Dust Palace

Sophie Hambleton

posted 26 Nov 2012, 02:38 PM

he SOUTH PACIFIC PICTURES Award for Best Break Up of the Year... Simon London and Kip Chapman THE PRIDE

The AUCKLAND ACTORS Award for Best Entrance of the Year... Sam Snedden in The Pride

The ELEPHANT PUBLICITY Award for Best Poster of the Year... Love it up

The GAIL COWAN MANAGEMENT Award for Best Actress/Actor Playing a Character with a Disability/Medical Condition of the Year... Renee Lyons as Beth Lofredda

The APRA Award for Best Singing in a Play... COLLEEN DAVIS LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS

The KATHRYN RAWLINGS AND ASSOCIATES Award for Best Nudity of the Year..... Kip Chapman in Black Confetti AND The Pride

The JOHNSON AND LAIRD MANAGEMENT Award for Best Cross Gender Acting of the Year... Josephine Stewart "young man on phone to grandma" - The Laramie Project 10 years on

The SILO THEATRE Award for Best Ensemble acting of the Year... The cast of THE PRIDE

The ROBERT BRUCE AGENCY Award for Best Director of a Gay Play staring Kip Chapman, Simon London, Dena Kennedy and Sam Snedden of the Year… SOPHIE ROBERTS

Sophie Hambleton

posted 26 Nov 2012, 02:42 PM

May I please add Most Origianal Production: BREL SILO THEATRE COMPANY

Simon Ward

posted 26 Nov 2012, 05:43 PM

I've only been back in NZ since August, so apologies to deserving nominees from the first half of 2012. Didn't see you do your thing.

The SOUTH PACIFIC PICTURES Award for Best Break Up of the Year...Andrew Ford and Nicole Jorgensen, The Sex Show.

The AUCKLAND ACTORS Award for Best Entrance of the Year...Basement Theatre, because when you walk in the toilets no longer stink out the bar.

The ELEPHANT PUBLICITY Award for Best Poster of the Year...Terror Island.

The Armstrong Creative Award for Best Technical ***k up of the Year...Not actually a ***k up, but Renee Lyons' Korean character communicating directly with Ruby Reihana-Wilson during The Triumphants was awesome.

The GAIL COWAN MANAGEMENT Award for Best Actress/Actor Playing a Character with a Disability/Medical Condition of the Year...Renee Lyons, The Triumphants.

The APRA Award for Best Singing in a Play...Michelle Blundell in Eigengrau. So good it makes you want to gouge your eyes out.

The Playmarket NEW ZEALAND Award for Best Line in a Kiwi Play...The "...33, the same age as Jesus was - when he was 33..." line from First Person Tense - Stephen Papps.

The KATHRYN RAWLINGS AND ASSOCIATES Award for Best Nudity of the Year...Jordan Mooney and Zara Cormack, The Sex Show.

The JOHNSON AND LAIRD MANAGEMENT Award for Best Cross Gender Acting of the Year...Chelsea McEwan Millar as the Irish guy in N0ughty Girls.

The SILO THEATRE Award for Best Ensemble acting of the Year...I know it's lame for me to say Eigengrau but they were just such a f**king awesome team to work with.

The ROBERT BRUCE AGENCY Award for Best Director of a Gay Play staring Kip Chapman, Simon London, Dena Kennedy and Sam Snedden of the Year…Nic Sampson. (...dunno, I wasn't here.)

The ELIZABETH WHITING Award for Best Costume of the Year...The Pantry Shelf.

The THEATREVIEW Award for Best Review Quote of the Year…. "The fact that Coddington is not only the Associate Director of the South Seas Film and TV School which he co-founded in 1991 (the on-screen acting course of which he developed 10 years later), but is also the Head of the School of Performing Arts at the Manukau Institute of Technology is genuinely terrifying." The mercilesslly honest Matt Baker, Tell Me on a Sunday review.

The HACKMAN Award for Best Unlucky in Love Character of the Year...Nicole Jorgensen, The Sex Show.

The NEW ZEALAND DANCE COMPANY Award for Best Dancing in a Theatre Show of the Year...Terror Island (didn't see the show, but if their performance at the Ride Out of the Blue Benefit was anything to go by... Roberto Nascimento's relentless Blue Steel is a thing of beauty).

The AUCKLAND ARTS FESTIVAL Award for Most Original Production of the Year...First Person Tense.

The endless mimed doors in Constantinople and/or the turntables in Constantinople - Sound effects combined with mime effects and acting.

The projections in Black Confetti – nice.

The vibrator in The Vibrator Play. It seemed so real.

The KATHRYN RAWLINGS AND ASSOCIATES Award for Best Nudity of the Year.....

Adam Gardiner and Anna Julienne in The Vibrator Play

The cast of The Brave. Although not physically naked their hearts and souls were definitely exposed.

The JOHNSON AND LAIRD MANAGEMENT Award for Best Cross Gender Acting of the Year...

Bok Choi in Sinarella. Was Bok a woman or camp guy? It was hard to say but who cares because Bok was awesome

The SILO THEATRE Award for Best Ensemble acting of the Year...

The Waste Land – the cast with a combined age of 1500 years had some moves.

Call Cutta in a Box – the Auckland cast and the Indian operators. Although we were all mere puppets in the hands of skilled form forward new deconstructionalist German theatre makers, I thought we did pretty good.

The ROBERT BRUCE AGENCY Award for Best Director of a Gay Play staring Kip Chapman, Simon London, Dena Kennedy and Sam Snedden of the Year…

Sophie Roberrrrts

The ELIZABETH WHITING Award for Best Costume of the Year...

John Parker - for David Aston's costume in Shortcut to Happiness. So outrageous that no one but the Aston could pull it off.

The THEATREVIEW Award for Best Review Quote of the Year….

Hmm the computer wouldn't allow me to cut and paste a full Lexie quote. It was good though. A tad long but very good.

The HACKMAN Award for Best Unlucky in Love Character of the Year...

I thought Simon London was very unlucky in love in The Pride and did it very well. He was a bit rough though but when repressed emotions take control…

The JAMES WALLACE ARTS TRUST AWARD for the fastest pack in/pack out by a production team of the year...

Ruby Reihana-Wilson and Rob McDonald packing Standstill in and out of Q. Like lighting.

The NEW ZEALAND DANCE COMPANY Award for Best Dancing in a Theatre Show of the Year...

Constantinople. Not only did the play feature dancing there was dancing after the show as well!

The AUCKLAND ARTS FESTIVAL Award for Most Original Production of the Year...

It's a dead heat between:

Constantinople

Manawa

Black Confetti

Simon Ward

posted 27 Nov 2012, 02:14 PM

Clean forgot about Brogilantes. Nominating them for:

Fastest pack-in/pack-out.

Best line: Chris Neels "you couldn't fumble-fuck your way out of a barrell of cunts"

Best technical ***k-up: the night I went someone accidentally locked the door into the garage and one of the cast jumped out a window to run around and open it.

Most original production: garage theatre. Awesome.

Mark Prebble

posted 27 Nov 2012, 04:29 PM

The HACKMAN Awards for 2012:

The SOUTH PACIFIC PICTURES Award for Best Break Up of the Year...

Nick telling his Mum he doesn't want to live with her in The Triumphants

The KATHRYN RAWLINGS AND ASSOCIATES Award for Best Nudity of the Year..... Luke Wilson for being in his undies for almost the entirety of MAB'S ROOM

The JOHNSON AND LAIRD MANAGEMENT Award for Best Cross Gender Acting of the Year... Joseph Moore in BOMBS AWAY

The SILO THEATRE Award for Best Ensemble acting of the Year... My bloody class in JACQUES BREL IS ALIVE AND WELL AND LIVING IN PARIS

The ROBERT BRUCE AGENCY Award for Best Director of a Gay Play staring Kip Chapman, Simon London, Dena Kennedy and Sam Snedden of the Year… Sophie Roberts

The ELIZABETH WHITING Award for Best Costume of the Year... Rima and Kyle's curtain call shirts in LITTLE SHOP

The THEATREVIEW Award for Best Review Quote of the Year…. "Have I unknowingly entered The Rapture?" - Maraea Rakuraku on Guy Williams

The HACKMAN Award for Best Unlucky in Love Character of the Year... Nathan Mudge in PUNK ROCK

The NEW ZEALAND DANCE COMPANY Award for Best Dancing in a Theatre Show of the Year... Zara Cormack in THE SEX SHOW

The AUCKLAND ARTS FESTIVAL Award for Most Original Production of the Year... TINY SPECTACLE/SHITTY LYRICISM

Wayne H

posted 2 Dec 2012, 05:31 PM

The HACKMAN Awards for 2012:

The SOUTH PACIFIC PICTURES Award for Best Break Up of the Year...

Kip Chapman and Simon London in The Pride.

The AUCKLAND ACTORS Award for Best Entrance of the Year...

Andrew Ford in Course Related Costs.

The ELEPHANT PUBLICITY Award for Best Poster of the Year...

Black Confetti.

The GAIL COWAN MANAGEMENT Award for Best Actress/Actor Playing a Character with a Disability/Medical Condition of the Year...

Andrew Ford in Awkward Family Christmas. Gorgeously funny.

The KATHRYN RAWLINGS AND ASSOCIATES Award for Best Nudity of the Year.....

Jordan Mooney in The Sex Show. Please get it out.

The JOHNSON AND LAIRD MANAGEMENT Award for Best Cross Gender Acting of the Year...

Joeseph Moore in Bombs Away.

The SILO THEATRE Award for Best Ensemble acting of the Year...

The cast of Punk Rock. Wow.

The ROBERT BRUCE AGENCY Award for Best Director of a Gay Play staring Kip Chapman, Simon London, Dena Kennedy and Sam Snedden of the Year…

Sophie Roberts.

The HACKMAN Award for Best Unlucky in Love Character of the Year...

Nathan Mudge in Punk Rock.

The AUCKLAND ARTS FESTIVAL Award for Most Original Production of the Year...Ben Hensons Titus.

Susan Sanders

posted 2 Dec 2012, 06:09 PM

The ELEPHANT PUBLICITY Award for Best Poster of the Year... COPENHAGEN

The GAIL COWAN MANAGEMENT Award for Best Actress/Actor Playing a Character with a Disability/Medical Condition of the Year... LEON WADHAM, TRIBES

The APRA Award for Best Singing in a Play... CAST OF BREL

The JOHNSON AND LAIRD MANAGEMENT Award for Best Cross Gender Acting of the Year... EVE GORDON, LOVE AND MONEY

The SILO THEATRE Award for Best Ensemble acting of the Year... THE WASTE LAND

The ELIZABETH WHITING Award for Best Costume of the Year... MICHAEL HURST'S (now missing) COSTUME FOR BARD DAY'S NIGHT

The THEATREVIEW Award for Best Review Quote of the Year…."But always at the heart of this wonderfully jubilant piece is Hurst himself, mangling the text as Shakespeare would have wanted, eating it up, chewing it roundly, spitting it out with venom, passion, anger, lust and love". (LEXIE MATHESON ON BARD DAY'S NIGHT)

The HACKMAN Award for Best Unlucky in Love Character of the Year... THE CAST OF EIGENGRAU

The AUCKLAND ARTS FESTIVAL Award for Most Original Production of the Year... BLACK CONFETTI

Lara Fischel-Chisholm

posted 3 Dec 2012, 10:28 AM

The HACKMAN Awards for 2012:

The SOUTH PACIFIC PICTURES Award for Best Break Up of the Year... Kip Chapman and Simon London, The Pride

The AUCKLAND ACTORS Award for Best Entrance of the Year... Josh Rutter as Lobster Man, Cowboy Mouth

The ELEPHANT PUBLICITY Award for Best Poster of the Year... Terror Island, poster by Ross Liew

The KATHRYN RAWLINGS AND ASSOCIATES Award for Best Nudity of the Year.....

Jordan Mooney- The Sex Show

The JOHNSON AND LAIRD MANAGEMENT Award for Best Cross Gender Acting of the Year...

Joseph Moore- Bombs Away

The SILO THEATRE Award for Best Ensemble acting of the Year...

Punk Rock

The ELIZABETH WHITING Award for Best Costume of the Year...

Cast of Starving, Carving, Darling (short and sweet)

The THEATREVIEW Award for Best Review Quote of the Year….

Matt Baker in general

The HACKMAN Award for Best Unlucky in Love Character of the Year...

Nathan Mudge- Punk Rock

The NEW ZEALAND DANCE COMPANY Award for Best Dancing in a Theatre Show of the Year...

Tim Carlson- Little Shop of Horrors

The AUCKLAND ARTS FESTIVAL Award for Most Original Production of the Year...

Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris (UNITEC)

Bob Doran

posted 3 Dec 2012, 06:09 PM

Who else for the Best Cross Gender Acting of the Year but George Henare playing a transvestite dominatrix playing Helen Clark AND Angela Merkel AND Kim Dotcom in the kaleidoscopic K Rd kabaret clusterfuck "Jews Brothers Bloomsday" at the Thirsty Dog?

Steve Dedalus

posted 3 Dec 2012, 06:45 PM

Never did Marilyn look so good. Never was she shown such respect. ELEPHANT PUBLICITY Award for Best Poster of the Year ... Marilyn Monroe in a brilliant rainbow hooped top reading from Ulysses -- Jews Brothers Bloomsday.

Calum Gittins

posted 4 Dec 2012, 06:02 PM / edited 4 Dec 2012, 08:38 PM

Managed to use last years voting categories somehow. Only took me like an hour. Facepalm.

nik smythe

posted 5 Dec 2012, 09:46 AM

Classic! I spent about that voting on Wellington's Kippies categories before realising I'm was in the wrong city! High-facepalm-five!

Sarah Graham

posted 5 Dec 2012, 01:15 PM

Some bias, some not.

The SOUTH PACIFIC PICTURES Award for Best Break Up of the Year...

Andrew Ford and Nicole Jorgensen The Sex Show

The AUCKLAND ACTORS Award for Best Entrance of the Year... Laura Daniel in Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and living in Paris (Unitec)

The ELEPHANT PUBLICITY Award for Best Poster of the Year... Black Confetti. A-maze.

The GAIL COWAN MANAGEMENT Award for Best Actress/Actor Playing a Character with a Disability/Medical Condition of the Year...

The night during Cowboy Mouth when Josephine ran out of cigarette papers and had to leave the scene and walk in to the audience to "visit" her "neighbour" a one "Mrs. Lebowski" - i.e. me - to get some. This was followed by Ash calling "Mrs' Lebowski" a "bitch" ...

The GAIL COWAN MANAGEMENT Award for Best Actress/Actor Playing a Character with a Disability/Medical Condition of the Year...

The KATHRYN RAWLINGS AND ASSOCIATES Award for Best Nudity of the Year.....Barnie & Trygve's jazzpants in Constantinople

The JOHNSON AND LAIRD MANAGEMENT Award for Best Cross Gender Acting of the Year...Alisha Lawrie Paul - Old Frankie - Little Histories

The SILO THEATRE Award for Best Ensemble acting of the Year...Cast of The Pride

The ROBERT BRUCE AGENCY Award for Best Director of a Gay Play staring Kip Chapman, Simon London, Dena Kennedy and Sam Snedden of the Year…SOPHIE ROBERTS!

The ELIZABETH WHITING Award for Best Costume of the Year...Lobster in Cowboy Mouth

The THEATREVIEW Award for Best Review Quote of the Year….'"To my knowledge no one has ever before dared to attempt a split-level stage in the Basement Theatre space, until now.' Little Histories

The HACKMAN Award for Best Unlucky in Love Character of the Year...Ash and Jose in In Cowboy Mouth

The JAMES WALLACE ARTS TRUST AWARD for the fastest pack in/pack out by a production team of the year...Little Histories Crew

The NEW ZEALAND DANCE COMPANY Award for Best Dancing in a Theatre Show of the Year... TERROR ISLAND CAST!

The AUCKLAND ARTS FESTIVAL Award for Most Original Production of the Year...Brel - Silo Theatre

Bob Doran

posted 6 Dec 2012, 01:12 PM

Also -- “We're at the bottom of the world, as far away from every interesting place as it's possible to be, so it costs us a fortune to go anywhere, we have the highest cost of living in the universe, we have wages so low we can compete with China, we have public holidays so few that other countries have to embark on austerity programmes to get down to our level, we have the most boring right-wing government in the world and the longest commercial breaks on TV… why are we here? … are we fuckin' nuts or what?” -- Linn Lorkin in Jews Brothers Bloomsday, Playmarket NEW ZEALAND Award for Best Line In a (Almost) Kiwi Play.

At the HACKMANS – held at the Civic's Wintergarden, Auckland, Monday 10 December - my abortive attempt to meet the producers' brief by delivering an instant review of the night's proceedings (before the end, as it turned out) was cut short. Fair enough. But having agreed to be acerbic and taken the ‘no turn unstoned' approach, I intended to end as follows:

“Let me close by quoting Dame Diana Rigg, who compiled the book No Turn Unstoned: ‘There are so many wonderful qualities to be found in the theatre, and courage predominates every time an entrance is made, every time an actor or actress undertakes the daring and delicate task of making an audience believe. Another great quality is generosity of spirit.'